Posted by Ryan Hurd on May 5, 2008 | No Comments
I”m happy to announce that the Dream Institute of Northern California is now online, making it easier than ever to see what innovative dream events are planned in the center of the American dream scene: Berkeley, CA.
If you live in the Bay Area, make contact and drop by for one of the Culture Dreaming sessions [...]
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Posted by Ryan Hurd on March 10, 2008 | 3 Comments
Since I”m in the business of pointing out good dream research, today I thought I would point out the opposite. Unfortunately, a recent fluff piece from The Daily Advertiser in Arizona is pretty typical of mainstream journalism. It’s an entertaining read, but devoid of actual journalistic research.
The title of this article “Stuff that [...]
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Filed Under: Dream Interpretation
Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 27, 2008 | Comments Off
Dream and Sleep Research
Dreaming
Online articles from the premiere Academic journal in contemporary dream research
DreamTime
Online articles from the magazine published by the International Association for the Study of Dreams
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Posted by Ryan Hurd on November 28, 2007 | 2 Comments
Check out the English translation of this mainstream piece on sleep and dream research just out of Korea. This article about the benefits of sleep is more holistic than the usual reductionist perspective that comes out of New York. Which is to say, the Korean piece succeeded in mentioning dreaming at all. [...]
Tags:Dream Interpretation, lucid dreams, sleep
Filed Under: Sleep Research
Posted by Ryan Hurd on November 25, 2007 | 2 Comments
I just uploaded a new essay titled the Trouble with Dream Studies, which is meant to contextualize my perspective about dream research and its place – or misplace – within Western science. The essay also introduces a series of further thoughts about the mysteries of dreaming which explore how our beliefs can construct – [...]
Tags:Dream Interpretation, epistemology
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Posted by Ryan Hurd on November 25, 2007 | 13 Comments
This essay introduces a series of articles about the difficulties facing dream studies as a field of knowledge. These difficulties emerge at every level of participation with dreaming, from third-person gathering of dream reports to first-person remembered experience. How do we know what we know? What is the spectrum of possibility [...]
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